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  <div class="section" id="anaconda-boot-options">
<h1>Anaconda Boot Options<a class="headerlink" href="#anaconda-boot-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Authors:</th><td class="field-body">Anaconda Developers &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:anaconda-devel-list&#37;&#52;&#48;redhat&#46;com">anaconda-devel-list<span>&#64;</span>redhat<span>&#46;</span>com</a>&gt;
Will Woods &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:wwoods&#37;&#52;&#48;redhat&#46;com">wwoods<span>&#64;</span>redhat<span>&#46;</span>com</a>&gt;
Anne Mulhern &lt;<a class="reference external" href="mailto:amulhern&#37;&#52;&#48;redhat&#46;com">amulhern<span>&#64;</span>redhat<span>&#46;</span>com</a>&gt;</td>
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<p>These are the boot options that are useful when starting Anaconda. For more
information refer to the appropriate Installation Guide for your release and
to the <a class="reference external" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda">Anaconda wiki</a>.</p>
<p>Anaconda bootup is handled by dracut, so most of the kernel arguments handled
by dracut are also valid. See <a class="reference external" href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#dracutcmdline7">dracut.kernel(7)</a> for details on those options.</p>
<p>Throughout this guide, installer-specific options are prefixed with
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst</span></code> (e.g. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.ks</span></code>). Options specified without the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst</span></code> prefix are
recognized, but the prefix may be required in a future release.</p>
<div class="section" id="installation-source">
<span id="repo"></span><h2>Installation Source<a class="headerlink" href="#installation-source" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>An <em>installable tree</em> is a directory structure containing installer
images, packages, and repodata. <a class="footnote-reference" href="#tree" id="id1">[1]</a></p>
<p class="last">Usually this is either a copy of the DVD media (or loopback-mounted DVD
image), or the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;arch&gt;/os/</span></code> directory on the Fedora mirrors.</p>
</div>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="tree" rules="none">
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[1]</a></td><td>an installable tree must contain a valid <cite>.treeinfo</cite> file
for <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.stage2</span></code> to work.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div class="section" id="inst-repo">
<span id="id2"></span><h3>inst.repo<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-repo" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This gives the location of the <em>Install Source</em> - that is, the place where the
installer can find its images and packages. It can be specified in a few
different ways:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=cdrom</span></code></dt>
<dd>Search the system&#8217;s CDROM drives for installer media. This is the default.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=cdrom:&lt;device&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Look for installer media in the specified disk device.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=hd:&lt;device&gt;:&lt;path&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Mount the given disk partition and install from ISO file on the given path.
This installation method requires ISO file, which contains an installable tree.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=[http,https,ftp]://&lt;host&gt;/&lt;path&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Look for an installable tree at the given URL.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=nfs:[&lt;options&gt;:]&lt;server&gt;:/&lt;path&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Mount the given NFS server and path. Uses NFS version <strong>3</strong> by default.</p>
<p>You can specify what version of the NFS protocol to use by adding <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nfsvers=X</span></code>
to the <cite>options</cite>.</p>
<p class="last">This accepts not just an installable tree directory in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;path&gt;</span></code> element,
but you can also specify an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.iso</span></code> file. That ISO file is then mounted and
used as the installation tree. This is often used for simulating a standard
DVD installation using a remote <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">DVD.iso</span></code> image.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<div class="admonition note" id="diskdev">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Disk devices may be specified with any of the following forms:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt>Kernel Device Name</dt>
<dd><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/dev/sda1</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sdb2</span></code></dd>
<dt>Filesystem Label</dt>
<dd><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LABEL=FLASH</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LABEL=Fedora</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CDLABEL=Fedora\x2023\x20x86_64</span></code></dd>
<dt>Filesystem UUID</dt>
<dd><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">UUID=8176c7bf-04ff-403a-a832-9557f94e61db</span></code></dd>
</dl>
<p class="last">Non-alphanumeric characters should be escaped with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\xNN</span></code>, where
&#8216;NN&#8217; is the hexidecimal representation of the character (e.g. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">\x20</span></code> for
the space character (&#8216; &#8216;).</p>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-noverifyssl">
<h3>inst.noverifyssl<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-noverifyssl" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Prevents Anaconda from verifying the ssl certificate for all HTTPS connections
with an exception of the additional kickstart repos (where &#8211;noverifyssl can be
set per repo).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-proxy">
<h3>inst.proxy<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-proxy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.proxy=PROXY_URL</span></code></p>
<p>Use the given proxy settings when performing an installation from a
HTTP/HTTPS/FTP source.  The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PROXY_URL</span></code> can be specified like this:
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[PROTOCOL://][USERNAME[:PASSWORD]&#64;]HOST[:PORT]</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-stage2">
<h3>inst.stage2<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-stage2" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This specifies the location to fetch only the installer runtime image;
packages will be ignored. Otherwise the same as <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-repo">inst.repo</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-dd">
<h3>inst.dd<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-dd" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This specifies the location for driver rpms. May be specified multiple times.
Locations may be specified using any of the formats allowed for
<a class="reference internal" href="#inst-repo">inst.repo</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-multilib">
<h3>inst.multilib<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-multilib" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This sets dnf&#8217;s multilib_policy to &#8220;all&#8221; (as opposed to &#8220;best&#8221;).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="kickstart">
<h2>Kickstart<a class="headerlink" href="#kickstart" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="inst-ks">
<h3>inst.ks<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-ks" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Give the location of a kickstart file to be used to automate the install.
Locations may be specified using any of the formats allowed for <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-repo">inst.repo</a>.</p>
<p>For any format the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;path&gt;</span></code> component defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/ks.cfg</span></code> if it is omitted.</p>
<p>For NFS kickstarts, if the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;path&gt;</span></code> ends in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;ip&gt;-kickstart</span></code> is added.</p>
<p>If <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.ks</span></code> is used without a value, the installer will look for
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nfs:&lt;next_server&gt;:/&lt;filename&gt;</span></code></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;next_server&gt;</span></code> is the DHCP &#8220;next-server&#8221; option, or the IP of the DHCP server itself</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;filename&gt;</span></code> is the DHCP &#8220;filename&#8221; option, or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/kickstart/</span></code>, and
if the filename given ends in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;ip&gt;-kickstart</span></code> is added (as above)</li>
</ul>
<p>For example:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>DHCP server: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">192.168.122.1</span></code></li>
<li>client address: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">192.168.122.100</span></code></li>
<li>kickstart file: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nfs:192.168.122.1:/kickstart/192.168.122.100-kickstart</span></code></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-ks-sendmac">
<h3>inst.ks.sendmac<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-ks-sendmac" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Add headers to outgoing HTTP requests which include the MAC addresses of all
network interfaces. The header is of the form:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">X-RHN-Provisioning-MAC-0:</span> <span class="pre">eth0</span> <span class="pre">01:23:45:67:89:ab</span></code></li>
</ul>
<p>This is helpful when using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.ks=http...</span></code> to provision systems.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-ks-sendsn">
<h3>inst.ks.sendsn<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-ks-sendsn" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Add a header to outgoing HTTP requests which includes the system&#8217;s serial
number. <a class="footnote-reference" href="#serial" id="id3">[2]</a></p>
<p>The header is of the form:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">X-System-Serial-Number:</span> <span class="pre">&lt;serial&gt;</span></code></li>
</ul>
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3">[2]</a></td><td>as read from <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/sys/class/dmi/id/product_serial</span></code></td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="network-options">
<h2>Network Options<a class="headerlink" href="#network-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Initial network setup is handled by dracut. For detailed information consult
the &#8220;Network&#8221; section of <a class="reference external" href="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/dracut/dracut.html#dracutcmdline7">dracut.kernel(7)</a>.</p>
<p>The most common dracut network options are covered here, along with some
installer-specific options.</p>
<div class="section" id="ip">
<h3>ip<a class="headerlink" href="#ip" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Configure one (or more) network interfaces. You can use multiple <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip</span></code>
arguments to configure multiple interfaces, but if you do you must specify an
interface for every <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=</span></code> argument, and you must specify which interface
is the primary boot interface with <a class="reference internal" href="#bootdev">bootdev</a>.</p>
<p>Accepts a few different forms; the most common are:</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=&lt;dhcp|dhcp6|auto6|ibft&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Try to bring up every interface using the given autoconf method.  Defaults
to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=dhcp</span></code> if network is required by <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.ks</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.updates</span></code>,
etc.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=&lt;interface&gt;:&lt;autoconf&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Bring up only one interface using the given autoconf method, e.g.
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=eth0:dhcp</span></code>.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=&lt;ip&gt;::&lt;gateway&gt;:&lt;netmask&gt;:&lt;hostname&gt;:&lt;interface&gt;:none</span></code></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Bring up the given interface with a static network config, where:</p>
<blockquote class="last">
<div><dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;ip&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>The client IP address. IPv6 addresses may be specified by putting
them in square brackets, like so: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">[2001:DB8::1]</span></code>.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;gateway&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>The default gateway. IPv6 addresses are accepted here too.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;netmask&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>The netmask (e.g. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">255.255.255.0</span></code>) or prefix (e.g. <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">64</span></code>).</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;hostname&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Hostname for the client machine. This component is optional.</dd>
</dl>
</div></blockquote>
</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=&lt;ip&gt;::&lt;gateway&gt;:&lt;netmask&gt;:&lt;hostname&gt;:&lt;interface&gt;:&lt;autoconf&gt;:&lt;mtu&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Bring up the given interface with the given autoconf method, but override the
automatically obtained IP/gateway/etc. with the provided values.</p>
<p class="last">Technically all of the items are optional, so if you want to use dhcp but also
set a hostname you can use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=::::&lt;hostname&gt;::dhcp</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="nameserver">
<h3>nameserver<a class="headerlink" href="#nameserver" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specify the address of a nameserver to use. May be used multiple times.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="bootdev">
<h3>bootdev<a class="headerlink" href="#bootdev" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specify which interface is the boot device. Required if multiple <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=</span></code>
options are used.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ifname">
<h3>ifname<a class="headerlink" href="#ifname" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ifname=&lt;interface&gt;:&lt;MAC&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Assign the given interface name to the network device with the given MAC. May
be used multiple times.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-dhcpclass">
<h3>inst.dhcpclass<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-dhcpclass" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Set the DHCP vendor class identifier [#dhcpd]. Defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">anaconda-$(uname</span> <span class="pre">-srm)</span></code>.</p>
<table class="docutils footnote" frame="void" id="dhcpd" rules="none">
<colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr><td class="label">[3]</td><td>ISC <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dhcpd</span></code> will see this value as &#8220;option vendor-class-identifier&#8221;.</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="console-display-options">
<h2>Console / Display Options<a class="headerlink" href="#console-display-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="console">
<h3>console<a class="headerlink" href="#console" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This is a kernel option that specifies what device to use as the primary
console. For example, if your console should be on the first serial port, use
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">console=ttyS0</span></code>.</p>
<p>You can use multiple <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">console=</span></code> options; boot messages will be displayed on
all consoles, but anaconda will put its display on the last console listed.</p>
<p>Implies <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-text">inst.text</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-lang">
<h3>inst.lang<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-lang" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Set the language to be used during installation. The language specified must
be valid for the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lang</span></code> kickstart command.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-singlelang">
<h3>inst.singlelang<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-singlelang" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Install in single language mode - no interactive options for installation language
and language support configuration will be available.
If a language has been specified via the <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-lang">inst.lang</a> boot option
or the <cite>lang</cite> kickstart command it will be used.
If no language is specified Anaconda will default to en_US.UTF-8.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">Atomic installations always run in single language mode.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-geoloc">
<h3>inst.geoloc<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-geoloc" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Configure geolocation usage in Anaconda. Geolocation is used to pre-set
language and time zone.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.geoloc=0</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables geolocation.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.geoloc=provider_fedora_geoip</span></code></dt>
<dd>Use the Fedora GeoIP API (default).</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.geoloc=provider_hostip</span></code></dt>
<dd>Use the Hostip.info GeoIP API.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-keymap">
<h3>inst.keymap<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-keymap" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Set the keyboard layout to use. The layout specified must be valid for use with
the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">keyboard</span></code> kickstart command.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-cmdline">
<h3>inst.cmdline<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-cmdline" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Run the installer in command-line mode. This mode does not
allow any interaction; all options must be specified in a kickstart file or
on the command line.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-graphical">
<h3>inst.graphical<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-graphical" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Run the installer in graphical mode. This is the default.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-text">
<h3>inst.text<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-text" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Run the installer using a limited text-based UI. Unless you&#8217;re using a
kickstart file this probably isn&#8217;t a good idea; you should use VNC instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-resolution">
<h3>inst.resolution<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-resolution" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specify screen size for the installer. Use format nxm, where n is the
number of horizontal pixels, m the number of vertical pixels. The lowest
supported resolution is 800x600.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-vnc">
<h3>inst.vnc<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-vnc" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Run the installer GUI in a VNC session. You will need a VNC client application
to interact with the installer. VNC sharing is enabled, so multiple clients
may connect.</p>
<p>A system installed with VNC will start in text mode (runlevel 3).</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-vncpassword">
<h3>inst.vncpassword<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-vncpassword" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Set a password on the VNC server used by the installer.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-vncconnect">
<h3>inst.vncconnect<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-vncconnect" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.vncconnect=&lt;host&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]</span></code></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Once the install starts, connect to a listening VNC client at the given host.
Default port is 5900.</p>
<p class="last">Use with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">vncviewer</span> <span class="pre">-listen</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-headless">
<h3>inst.headless<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-headless" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specify that the machine being installed onto doesn&#8217;t have any display
hardware, and that anaconda shouldn&#8217;t bother looking for it.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-xdriver">
<h3>inst.xdriver<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-xdriver" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Specify the X driver that should be used during installation and on the
installed system.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-usefbx">
<h3>inst.usefbx<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-usefbx" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Use the framebuffer X driver (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fbdev</span></code>) rather than a hardware-specific driver.</p>
<p>Equivalent to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.xdriver=fbdev</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-sshd">
<h3>inst.sshd<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-sshd" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Start up <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sshd</span></code> during system installation. You can then ssh in while the
installation progresses to debug or monitor its progress.</p>
<div class="admonition caution">
<p class="first admonition-title">Caution</p>
<p class="last">The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">root</span></code> account has no password by default. You can set one using
the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">sshpw</span></code> kickstart command.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="debugging-and-troubleshooting">
<h2>Debugging and Troubleshooting<a class="headerlink" href="#debugging-and-troubleshooting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="inst-rescue">
<h3>inst.rescue<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-rescue" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Run the rescue environment. This is useful for trying to diagnose and fix
broken systems.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-updates">
<h3>inst.updates<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-updates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Give the location of an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">updates.img</span></code> to be applied to the installer runtime.
Locations may be specified using any of the formats allowed for <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo</span></code>.</p>
<p>For any format the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">&lt;path&gt;</span></code> component defaults to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/updates.img</span></code> if it is
omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-nokill">
<h3>inst.nokill<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-nokill" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A debugging option that prevents anaconda from and rebooting when a fatal error
occurs or at the end of the installation process.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-loglevel">
<h3>inst.loglevel<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-loglevel" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.loglevel=&lt;debug|info|warning|error|critical&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Set the minimum level required for messages to be logged on a terminal (log
files always contain messages of all levels). The default value is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">info</span></code>.</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-noshell">
<h3>inst.noshell<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-noshell" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Do not put a shell on tty2 during install.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-syslog">
<h3>inst.syslog<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-syslog" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.syslog=&lt;host&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]</span></code></dt>
<dd><p class="first">Once installation is running, send log messages to the syslog process on
the given host. The default port is 514 (UDP).</p>
<p class="last">Requires the remote syslog process to accept incoming connections.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-virtiolog">
<h3>inst.virtiolog<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-virtiolog" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Forward logs through the named virtio port (a character device at
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/dev/virtio-ports/&lt;name&gt;</span></code>).</p>
<p>If not provided, a port named <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">org.fedoraproject.anaconda.log.0</span></code>
will be used by default, if found.</p>
<p>See the <a class="reference external" href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Logging">Anaconda wiki logging page</a> for more info on setting up logging via virtio.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-zram">
<h3>inst.zram<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-zram" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Forces/disables (on/off) usage of zRAM swap for the installation process.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="boot-loader-options">
<h2>Boot loader options<a class="headerlink" href="#boot-loader-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="extlinux">
<h3>extlinux<a class="headerlink" href="#extlinux" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Use extlinux as the bootloader. Note that there&#8217;s no attempt to validate that
this will work for your platform or anything; it assumes that if you ask for it,
you want to try.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="leavebootorder">
<h3>leavebootorder<a class="headerlink" href="#leavebootorder" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Boot the drives in their existing order, to override the default of booting into
the newly installed drive on Power Systems servers and EFI systems. This is
useful for systems that, for example, should network boot first before falling
back to a local boot.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="storage-options">
<h2>Storage options<a class="headerlink" href="#storage-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="inst-nodmraid">
<h3>inst.nodmraid<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-nodmraid" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Disable support for dmraid.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">This option is never a good idea! If you have a disk that is
erroneously identified as part of a firmware RAID array, that means
it has some stale RAID metadata on it which must be removed using
an appropriate tool (dmraid and/or wipefs).</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-nompath">
<h3>inst.nompath<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-nompath" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Disable support for multipath devices. This is for systems on which a
false-positive is encountered which erroneously identifies a normal block device
as a multipath device. There is no other reason to use this option.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p class="last">Not for use with actual multipath hardware!  Using this to attempt
to install to a single path of a multipath is ill-advised, and not
supported.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-gpt">
<h3>inst.gpt<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-gpt" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Prefer creation of GPT disklabels.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="other-options">
<h2>Other options<a class="headerlink" href="#other-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<div class="section" id="inst-selinux">
<h3>inst.selinux<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-selinux" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Enable SELinux usage in the installed system (default). Note that when used as a
boot option, &#8220;selinux&#8221; and &#8220;inst.selinux&#8221; are not the same. The &#8220;selinux&#8221; option
is picked up by both the kernel and Anaconda, but &#8220;inst.selinux&#8221; is processed
only by Anaconda. So when &#8220;selinux=0&#8221; is used, SELinux will be disabled both in
the installation environment and in the installed system, but when
&#8220;inst.selinux=0&#8221; is used SELinux will only be disabled in the installed system.
Also note that while SELinux is running in the installation environment by
default, it is running in permissive mode so disabling it there does not make
much sense.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-nosave">
<h3>inst.nosave<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-nosave" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Controls what installation results should not be saved to the installed system,
valid values are: &#8220;input_ks&#8221;, &#8220;output_ks&#8221;, &#8220;all_ks&#8221;, &#8220;logs&#8221; and &#8220;all&#8221;.</p>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">input_ks</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables saving of the input kickstart (if any).</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">output_ks</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables saving of the output kickstart generated by Anaconda.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">all_ks</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables saving of both input and output kickstarts.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logs</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables saving of all installation logs.</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">all</span></code></dt>
<dd>Disables saving of all kickstarts and all logs.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Multiple values can be combined as a comma separated list, for example: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">input_ks,logs</span></code></p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
<p class="last">The nosave option is meant for excluding files from the installed system that <em>can&#8217;t</em>
be removed by a kickstart %post script, such as logs and input/output kickstarts.</p>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="third-party-options">
<h3>Third-party options<a class="headerlink" href="#third-party-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Since Fedora 19 the Anaconda installer supports third-party extensions called
<em>addons</em>. The <em>addons</em> can support their own set of boot options which should be
documented in their documentation or submitted here.</p>
<div class="section" id="inst-kdump">
<h4>inst.kdump<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-kdump" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h4>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.kdump_addon=on/off</span></code></p>
<p>Enable kdump anaconda addon to setup the kdump service.</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="deprecated-options">
<h2>Deprecated Options<a class="headerlink" href="#deprecated-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These options should still be accepted by the installer, but they are
deprecated and may be removed soon.</p>
<div class="section" id="method">
<h3>method<a class="headerlink" href="#method" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This is an alias for <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-repo">inst.repo</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="repo-nfsiso">
<h3>repo=nfsiso:...<a class="headerlink" href="#repo-nfsiso" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The difference between an installable tree and a dir with an <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.iso</span></code> file is
autodetected, so this is the same as <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.repo=nfs:</span></code>...</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dns">
<h3>dns<a class="headerlink" href="#dns" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#nameserver">nameserver</a> instead. Note that <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nameserver</span></code> does not
accept comma-separated lists; use multiple <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">nameserver</span></code> options instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="netmask-gateway-hostname">
<h3>netmask, gateway, hostname<a class="headerlink" href="#netmask-gateway-hostname" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>These can be provided as part of the <a class="reference internal" href="#ip">ip</a> option.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ip-bootif">
<h3>ip=bootif<a class="headerlink" href="#ip-bootif" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>A PXE-supplied BOOTIF option will be used automatically, so there&#8217;s no need</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ksdevice">
<h3>ksdevice<a class="headerlink" href="#ksdevice" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<dl class="docutils">
<dt><em>Not present</em></dt>
<dd>The first device with a usable link is used</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ksdevice=link</span></code></dt>
<dd>Ignored (this is the same as the default behavior)</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ksdevice=bootif</span></code></dt>
<dd>Ignored (this is the default if <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOTIF=</span></code> is present)</dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ksdevice=ibft</span></code></dt>
<dd>Replaced with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ip=ibft</span></code>. See <a class="reference internal" href="#ip">ip</a></dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ksdevice=&lt;MAC&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Replaced with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOTIF=${MAC/:/-}</span></code></dd>
<dt><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ksdevice=&lt;DEV&gt;</span></code></dt>
<dd>Replaced with <a class="reference internal" href="#bootdev">bootdev</a></dd>
</dl>
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</div>
<div class="section" id="removed-options">
<h2>Removed Options<a class="headerlink" href="#removed-options" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>These options are obsolete and have been removed.</p>
<div class="section" id="askmethod-asknetwork">
<h3>askmethod, asknetwork<a class="headerlink" href="#askmethod-asknetwork" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Anaconda&#8217;s initramfs is now is completely non-interactive, so these have been
removed.</p>
<p>Instead, use <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-repo">inst.repo</a> or specify appropriate <a class="reference internal" href="#network-options">Network Options</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="blacklist-nofirewire">
<h3>blacklist, nofirewire<a class="headerlink" href="#blacklist-nofirewire" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">modprobe</span></code> handles blacklisting kernel modules on its own; try
<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">modprobe.blacklist=&lt;mod1&gt;,&lt;mod2&gt;...</span></code></p>
<p>You can blacklist the firewire module with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">modprobe.blacklist=firewire_ohci</span></code>.</p>
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<div class="section" id="id4">
<h3>serial<a class="headerlink" href="#id4" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This option was never intended for public use; it was supposed to be used to
force anaconda to use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/dev/ttyS0</span></code> as its console when testing it on a live
machine.</p>
<p>Use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">console=ttyS0</span></code> or similar instead. See <a class="reference internal" href="#console">console</a> for details.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="updates">
<h3>updates<a class="headerlink" href="#updates" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Use <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-updates">inst.updates</a> instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="essid-wepkey-wpakey">
<h3>essid, wepkey, wpakey<a class="headerlink" href="#essid-wepkey-wpakey" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Dracut doesn&#8217;t support wireless networking, so these don&#8217;t do anything.</p>
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<div class="section" id="ethtool">
<h3>ethtool<a class="headerlink" href="#ethtool" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Who needs to force half-duplex 10-base-T anymore?</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="gdb">
<h3>gdb<a class="headerlink" href="#gdb" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>This was used to debug <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">loader</span></code>, so it has been removed. There are plenty of
options for debugging dracut-based initramfs - see the dracut &#8220;Troubleshooting&#8221; guide.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-mediacheck">
<h3>inst.mediacheck<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-mediacheck" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Use the dracut option rd.live.check instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="ks-floppy">
<h3>ks=floppy<a class="headerlink" href="#ks-floppy" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>We no longer support floppy drives. Try <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">inst.ks=hd:&lt;device&gt;</span></code> instead.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="display">
<h3>display<a class="headerlink" href="#display" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>For remote display of the UI, use <a class="reference internal" href="#inst-vnc">inst.vnc</a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="utf8">
<h3>utf8<a class="headerlink" href="#utf8" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>All this option actually did was set <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TERM=vt100</span></code>. The default <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TERM</span></code> setting
works fine these days, so this was no longer necessary.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="noipv6">
<h3>noipv6<a class="headerlink" href="#noipv6" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>ipv6 is built into the kernel and can&#8217;t be removed by anaconda.</p>
<p>You can disable ipv6 with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ipv6.disable=1</span></code>. This setting will be carried onto
the installed system.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="upgradeany">
<h3>upgradeany<a class="headerlink" href="#upgradeany" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Anaconda doesn&#8217;t handle upgrades anymore.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="inst-repo-hd-device-path-for-installable-tree">
<h3>inst.repo=hd:&lt;device&gt;:&lt;path&gt; for installable tree<a class="headerlink" href="#inst-repo-hd-device-path-for-installable-tree" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Anaconda can&#8217;t use this option with installable tree but only with an ISO file.</p>
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